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		nirmal on June 8, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software... http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html A simple Python based spell checker along with some discussion of probability and the pitfalls of doing things the naive way.

aston on June 8, 2008 [–]

Norvig's code solves an even more difficult problem, spell correcting. But yeah, good read nonetheless.

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